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lamb

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: beef

Chicken is lower in fat, while beef is often more affordable.

chickpeas

🥗Healthier: lentils

💰Cheaper: canned beans

Lentils are high in protein and quicker to cook; canned beans are budget-friendly.

Put 150 g of lightly roasted almonds and 100 g of lightly roasted pistachios in the food processor and grind them coarsely

Soak the almonds and pistachios for a couple of hours and remove the skin after they dried

Roast the nuts lightly in the oven

Put 300 g breadcrumbs in the food processor

Add 600 g pitted dates to the breadcrumbs and blend well

Add the ground nuts to the mixture

Add 8 to 10 ground green cardamoms and 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder to the mixture

Add 100 g clarified butter to the mixture

Add 125 g of honey gradually and adjust sweetness to your liking

Knead the mixture into a bowl

Shape the dough into lime-sized balls

Sprinkle sugar on a plate and roll the balls in sugar

Coat some balls in honey and then roll them in coarsely ground almonds or pistachios

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